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Heliogabalus|ˌhiːlɪəʊˈgæbələs|
[Latinized f. Elagabal, Syro-Phœnician sun-god.]
The adopted name of Varius Avitus Bassianus, Roman Emperor a.d. 218–222, famed for folly and profligacy, used allusively. Also ˌHeliogaˈbalian |-gəˈbeɪlɪən| a., resembling the character or tastes of Heliogabalus. ˌHelioˈgabalize v. intr., to act like Heliogabalus.
1589Greene Menaphon (1880) 71 For his dissolute life he seemed another Heliogabalus. 1618J. Taylor (Water P.) Pennilesse Pilgr. sig. F3r Had I beene a Sardanapalus, or a Heliogabalus, I thinke that..the great trauell ouer the Mountaines had tamed me. 1624Burton Anat. Mel. (ed. 2) i. ii. ii. ii. 63 What Fagos, Epicures, Apitios, Heliogables our times affourd? 1859National Mag. V. 142/1 In California..the Celestials..make a Heliogobalian [sic] kind of dish of rats' brains. 1893W. S. Gilbert Utopia Ltd. i. 5 His Majesty is one of the most Heliogabalian profligates that ever disgraced an autocratic throne. 1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 492 Perhaps the mentality of a boy of fourteen..is more wholesome than the mentality of the young cock⁓taily person..whose mind has nothing to do but play with the toys of life... Heliogabulus [sic], indeed! |